Bathroom, Art Room, Playground, Swimming Pool = these are the places that could be used for the film since it has several objects there to create different sounds

Some of the theme ideas with these places were:

-          A School Day of a Student (where we would have 4 periods, lunch and recess so every one of the places could be involved) – This was too broad and would be difficult to try to put into 3 minutes only, and we would not be able to concentrate on each scene. 

-          Reminiscence of an Adult (where it is similar to the first one but different in a way that it is the reminiscence from an adult who have already graduate) – This was a fine idea which could have been taken but we talked more in order to get out some more ideas.

The final theme, which is also the title of the STOMP performance, which has been chosen, is called “Our Memory Recollection”. It is a story where five senior students reminisce about the valuable childhood memories that they have shared and start to miss that time. The story briefly goes on like this: 5 students will be studying in a classroom, not one of them will be looking at each other nor sitting together and are busy with their individual tasks to complete (this scene means that the students are not close now due to lack of conversation and time spent together, too busy to study and learn). One of the students, sitting in the corner, will start her rhythm and others will slowly join (in this scene, the rhythms will all be slow and lethargic, creating a blue and boring mood). A student will start daydreaming and the scene would turn black, and then back to color with different place and scene, which will be the playground. All five girls (this time wearing some childish cloths, to show that they are kindergarteners) will be playing in the playground, but all of them together this time. The rhythms will be played with the equipment, creating fast and exciting beat. Suddenly, one of the girls would start to cry, and shout at the other girl, who did not allow the crying girl to go on the ride on the slide. The rhythms will get faster and more intense with some shootings of the two girls in between. One of the fighting girls will run out the playground and go into the bathroom, get inside and closed one of the restroom stalls. The children will run after her (dragging the other one that was fighting), and comfort two girls to soothe (there will be crossings of the rhythms mood since the children’s will get angry in between but then try to calm themselves). After the two girls become happy again, all one them will grab each other’s hand and get outside of the bathroom, get into the hallway, create some happy rhythms then a girl will call out for everyone, and then run outside the playgrounds door. The story ends.

After roughly and briefly outline the story, we went to take a look at the playground, bathroom, and hallway. There are two playgrounds in the school, the Kindergartener’s playground and the elementary playground. We decided to choose the Kindergarteners’ playground because there is not enough equipment in the other one and this one is more like a playground for little kids. However, the playground was too big when we checked it out, and the sounds will be difficult to be heard into the camera if we are spread out. There is a method where we can record all the different rhythms and combine it digitally but it requires lots of work and none of us are good at technical stuffs.. So we decided to only use the half of the playground to hear the rhythms, which includes the slide, monkey bar, the ground, and more. Second, the bathroom that we chose to use it the one that is nearest to the playground, there is a hall between the bathroom and the door to the playground so it also matches our story. Additionally, the bathroom is very good at trapping sounds so we don’t need to try hard to shout and stomp. Though there will be some problems to this since the rhythms that will be created in the bathroom will be loud and fast, it can be very loud since the room traps sound, its fine since we can technically lower the volume of that particular scene. The hallway has nothing to make use of, but we can use our body parts at that scene since it will be slow rhythms going on.

Duration of the scene: 20 seconds
Instruments: Pen (pen tapping), pencil case (zipper), water bottle, desk (stomping), book (flipping page)
Mood of rhythms: Slow and boring, purpose is to be expressing how these students are not having fun in life and exhausted of all the work. Long repetitions will be included in order to make the rhythms boring.

Second scene – After walking around the room and show all 5 different students, one student will suddenly stop stomping the desk and all other students follow. The camera will zoom into the student and the student will start daydreaming. Everything goes blur.
Duration of the scene: 5 seconds

Third scene – A light flashes and shows feet jumping on the floor of game board, which making sound. Then the camera turns to the chalkboard and shows a girl (dressed up as kindergartener) using the chalk to make sound and draw on the board. She throws the chalk away after some seconds then turns around. Following the girl, the camera turns around and shows the main playground, where 4 other students, 5 when the chalkboard girl gets in makes sounds while playing like youngsters.
Duration of the scene: 20 seconds
Instruments: Board Game Floor, Chalkboard (chalk drawing), monkey bar (hitting the iron with drumsticks), slide (hitting)
Mood of rhythms: Fast and fun, all 5 people will be running around and happily create rhythms.

Fourth scene - A girl is trying to come from a slide, and another girl at the bottom mischievously blocks her from coming down. This will continue for a while and with a shout from the girl at the top of the slide, trying to get down, every sound stops. 
Duration of the scene: 20 seconds
Instrument: Monkey bar, slides, and more
Mood of rhythms: Still playful and happy at first, but gets faster and reaching the climax, the loudest and fastest rhythms of the song gets produced, then everything stops.

1) Used variety of different sounds and used creative instruments

2) All the rhythms are heard and beats are enough

We are going to decide on how many beats will be played after Yeon Su comes in and stop the entire beat at the same time; also, eye contacts will be made. Additionally, the part that Yeeun will be playing will be changed into playing with a basketball bouncing off the wall rather than just hitting the iron since it sounds similar with other instruments, also, since she is playing next to me, and I am playing the slide, the sound of the slide gets smaller.

Some feedback that we got for the class scene was:

1)      The rhythms is too boring

2)      The flipping page sound cannot really been heard and is useless

3)      Need a climax of the sounds so should increase the speed or  increase the sounds
We were successful when considered the goal of the scene, which was to create boring slow rhythms that would make the audience understand how much these students are bored, and the next scene would give a difference and change the whole mood. The flipping page is meant to be done with different book which produce louder sound.

 Overall, I believe we should really concentrate on conveying the video's story effectively because after performing, many people got confused with how the playground and classroom is related. Therefore, it would become a really weird video if the story doesn’t get conveyed properly.